Chapter 907: Diverting the Tiger from the Mountain
The meeting was held in the dreary after the assurances of the Idle Palace, and the rest of the matter was almost without the participation of these two princes. The people below will discuss it themselves.
This is the second joint operation between the army and navy. If this was something that was simply unthinkable before, but at this moment the Army had to beg the Navy.
Although the navy has its own marines, it wants to occupy areas including India, and it is obvious that the marines at that point are absolutely insufficient. They had to rely on the Army in some respects.
This mutual dependence between the two sides has forced them to compromise with each other in some areas, such as the fact that the army has now made compromises instead of insisting on the issue of withdrawal.
Similarly, the Navy has made compromises on the issue of support. Such a compromise is both a necessity and an imperative. Despite the reluctance of both sides, they had to make compromises.
“…… The base camp has a strategy in place and will provide support to your unit within a week. I hope that your troops will stick to Shanghai, and do not betray the trust of His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp......"
After the support was set, the army sent a telegram to Shunroku Hata in Shanghai overnight. Otherwise, if Shunroku Hatata's troops thought that they had been abandoned at this time, then they might lose confidence and the position would have been captured.
This is not what the base camp wants to see, and in fact this is the reason why the army side of the base camp has made compromises with the navy.
And in the forward headquarters of the Sixth Army, cigarette butts have been thrown to the ground. In the entire command headquarters, from the army commander Ren Wenbin to the staff officers below, there was not a single one who did not have red eyes.
Staying up late and smoking without moderation makes no one comfortable. But now they are even more uncomfortable that everyone in the entire Sixth Army has studied for a night and has not come up with a feasible plan.
They don't know how many times they have conducted tactical deductions, but each time they come down, the casualties are calculated at least more than 20,000. This is clearly not possible.
The Commander-in-Chief's request has never been compromised. It was said that it had to be a loss of 10,000 people. It must have been a loss of 10,000 people. There are fewer awards, and more are all out.
"Damn...... Where did this devil learn how to build fortifications?! It's more tortoise shell than a fucking tortoise shell, what's the fuck?! Ren Wenbin threw the cigarette butt on the ground and roared.
He didn't know that in fact, after Tu Menghu used fortifications to withstand the Japanese attack in the Battle of Jinan, the Japanese side began to study the fortifications.
It's just that there was no way to practice it at that time, and the Japanese troops at that time were still habitually using the tactics of World War I. But when the Wehrmacht was one after another, especially after Nanjing actually relied on the fortifications to hold the Japanese attack.
These fortifications were again put on the agenda, and the Japanese began to study in depth the strategic fortifications of the Wehrmacht. At the same time, they themselves worked out a set of ways to build fortifications.
Matsui Ishone never underestimated the role of fortifications, and this kind of research was valued by him and applied to the construction of the Shanghai defense line. With the manpower support of hundreds of thousands of puppet troops. The fortifications were finally formed.
They also played an unexpected role, and for the first time they succeeded in inflicting extensive casualties on the Wehrmacht on the battlefield. This was rare in previous battles.
The basic record of the Wehrmacht and the Japanese army, only this time the Wehrmacht had nothing to do with the Japanese army. Of course, the North Korean side is basically in this state.
"Our commander-in-chief is a tiger. Supposedly, we should also be tigers! But why are you stuck in this place?! Ren Wenbin was a little puzzled, he gritted his teeth and said viciously: "Otherwise, Lao Tzu will go up with the death squad and get ......."
"Wait! Old Ren, what did you just say?! Chief of Staff Xue Wen suddenly raised his head from the sand table and said urgently to Ren Wenbin: "Quick! Say it again to me! ”
Ren Wenbin was stunned for a moment, thinking that his chief of staff heard that he was going to take the death squad to persuade him!
"I said, 'Or I'll take the death squads ......'"
"Not that! Previous sentence! Previous sentence!! Xue Wen suddenly said anxiously, looking at his old partner's appearance, Ren Wenbin knew that he must have thought of something, so Ren Wenbin thought about it for a while before saying, "I said, 'Our commander-in-chief is a tiger ......'"
"That's right! That's it! Xue Wen jumped up excitedly. Hehe smirked: "Damn! Lao Tzu is stupid, he didn't even think of this trick! ”
"What?! Lao Xue, have you thought of a way?! Ren Wenbin was also excited when he heard this, his old partner had never lied. He even said he thought of it. Then it must have been thought of.
Xue Wen stood up from the sand table, straightened his waist and sighed: "Damn, the commander-in-chief said that we don't use our brains, it's really right!" Let's just play too smoothly......"
"Don't the calf. Hurry up and say that you thought about it, why did you fight?! Ren Wenbin waved his hand impatiently and said to his old partner: "If you think of it, hurry up." My heart is like a cat scratching! ”
Xue Wen laughed, took a pen and paper and wrote four big characters on the paper with a pen - "Tune the tiger away from the mountain"!
Ren Wenbin couldn't help but look at these four words, and then there was a burst of ecstasy! It's not a matter of a day or two that he and Xue Wen have partnered, Xue Wen has written out the method, how can he not understand?!
"Damn! Lao Xue, your kid's head is just easy to use! Ren Wenbin laughed wildly and said, "Come on, come on...... Let's deduce it, improve the plan and send it down......"
The staff officers on the side couldn't help but be a little inexplicable when they saw that the chief of staff and their own army commanders were laughing wildly, and those division commanders couldn't understand what tricks their army commanders and chief of staff were playing.
"Don't stand stupid, get here!" Ren Wenbin once again regained his army commander's arrogance, and snorted coldly: "Zhou Haokuang of the Fifth Army, that kid always blocks you army commander, this time we will win the battle fiercely!" Let that old boy see, our Sixth Army is not vegetarian! ”
"Yes!!" Although the generals below did not know what was going on, it was certain that their own army commander and chief of staff had found a way to deal with the Japanese army.
On that day, the division commanders and regiment commanders of the entire Sixth Army were all concentrated in the headquarters to secretly calculate how to attack. It was not until the evening that the operational meetings stopped, after which the entire Sixth Army was mobilized.
First of all, the army commander Ren Wenbin and his adjutant found the armored troops, and soaked them to dozens of barrels of gasoline and a bunch of scrapped rubber tires. Then the chief of staff found the corps logistics department and tried his best to get more than 100 catties of sugar and empty wine bottles.
In the headquarters of the legion, Yan Chenghan handed over all the artillery command of the entire legion to them after listening to the reports of Ren Wenbin and Xue Wen.
Under the coordination of Yan Chenghan, the Air Force's reconnaissance planes, bombers, and ground-attack planes all took off.
"Chirp...... Boom Boom Boom ......" At noon, the second-line positions of the Japanese army roared incessantly. The sound of bombing, shelling and the tracks of tanks became the main theme here.
The artillery bombarded the Japanese positions, and then the tanks began to attack the Japanese positions under the coordination of the infantry. The Japanese troops on the second-line position were also unable to show weakness, and the commanders of the two divisions stationed here immediately spread out their troops and began to counterattack.
A large number of artillery pieces were pushed out from the reserve points inside the line and then bombarded the Wehrmacht in front of the positions. Under intense artillery fire, the Wehrmacht tanks could only stop advancing.
But subsequent Wehrmacht infantry began to use mortars, sniper rifles, etc., to shoot at those attacking exposed fire points. This caused a certain amount of damage to the Japanese army, but fortunately, this problem was taken into account during the construction of the fortifications.
Most of the Japanese soldiers were only on their hands, and few were killed. The hateful thing is that those Wehrmacht forces are now all shrunk behind the tanks, so the Japanese army's gains cannot be expanded.
After a while, the Wehrmacht withdrew. Immediately after that came the air force units of the Wehrmacht, most of them were ground attack aircraft.
"Whoosh...... The rockets mounted on the attack planes were constantly under the dive of the planes, and they were fired at the Japanese firing points.......
And after the rockets ran out, the planes did not evacuate directly. Instead, the machine guns and machine guns carried on the plane were used to start strafing those firing points, and the machine guns and machine guns were too lethal to the Japanese troops, and there were constant screams in the fortifications. Almost all of the exposed firing points were strongly attacked by the Wehrmacht.
That's the part that hurts the most. However, the Japanese also quickly adjusted their tactics, and almost all the troops in those shooting holes withdrew to the safety zone.
Weapons were also almost always pushed behind the firing hole, which they would never return to until the Wehrmacht planes had stopped attacking.
"Chirp ......" After the planes bombed and strafed, those damn artillery began to bombard again. Large shells smashed into the firing holes of the Japanese fortifications one by one, as if they had eyes.
Some of the weapons that did not have time to be evacuated were shattered under heavy artillery bombardment, but fortunately, the casualties have been greatly reduced.
And after an hour-long shelling, the Wehrmacht went on the offensive again. It was still the tanks in the vanguard, and the infantry as a supporting force in an attempt to break through the Japanese positions.
The Japanese troops stationed in the positions spontaneously began to clear the blocked passages without the orders of their commanders, and at the same time kept returning their weapons to the firing holes to stop the Wehrmacht attack.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Wehrmacht launched an untold number of offensives. And the methods they use are almost always the same. The tanks covered the infantry as they tried to break through the position, and after encountering strong resistance, they did not fight to the death but withdrew.
This was followed by extensive bombing, strafing and shelling. Under this offensive method, the Japanese suffered heavy losses. Although the casualties were not large, the consumption of ammunition and the damage to weapons were enormous.
PS: Chapter 2! WhewW...... Sleep ...... after the yard